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president obama won the district as well. the democratic presidential candidate has claimed victory in d.c. in every election since 1964. that is the first year district residents voted in a presidential election. >>> now, former virginia governor, democrat tim kaine, has won the closely watched virginia senate race. george allen conceded last night. night. >>> coming up next be a look at how newspapers nationwide are marking this moment in history. >> and are big issues on the ballot for the voters in the district. the city council pushes to crack down on bad behavior and voters help make it happen. fox 5 morning news is back in a moment. >>> a second term. president obama will remain in office for another four years. the result of the close race making headlines around the nation and the world this morning. nearly all of them showing the first family celebrating their victory. >> on the local level, let's turn to the district and the most watched race there. chairman of the d.c. council. >> phil men
president obama won the district as well. the democratic presidential candidate has claimed victory in d.c. in every election since 1964. that is the first year district residents voted in a presidential election. >>> now, former virginia governor, democrat tim kaine, has won the closely watched virginia senate race. george allen conceded last night. night. >>> coming up next be a look at how newspapers nationwide are marking this moment in history. >> and are big issues...
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. >>> president barack obama honoring the nation's veterans at a solemn ceremony at the tomb of the unknowns at arlington national cemetery. he says no ceremony or par he had is enough to truly honor the service of our country's men and women in uniform. on the anniversary of the vietnam war, there was a special ceremony at the vietnam war memorial. it is also marking the anniversary of the memorial. >>> over at the most eastent addition to the national mall, a ceremony honoring the aging world war ii vets. there are a couple of more events around our region today. officially, veterans day was yesterday but it is being observed today so no post office and government workers have the day off. >>> a slippery situation at one airport. a plane flies right off the runway. >>> a tragedy at a home for seniors. a menu of wild mushrooms that proved to be deadly. stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> a man accused of being the east coast rapist reportedly admits to raping several women. aaron thomas spoke to a reporter for the "washington post" from a cell where he is awaiting trial. he t
. >>> president barack obama honoring the nation's veterans at a solemn ceremony at the tomb of the unknowns at arlington national cemetery. he says no ceremony or par he had is enough to truly honor the service of our country's men and women in uniform. on the anniversary of the vietnam war, there was a special ceremony at the vietnam war memorial. it is also marking the anniversary of the memorial. >>> over at the most eastent addition to the national mall, a ceremony...
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president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. >>> with more details about disney's big announcement this week that it has acquired the entire star wars fran chiez, well, to celebrate disney released a video. take a look at it. >> are you kidding me? >> the video shows what darth vader might do on his first trip to disney world. of course his trip would include a ride on space mountain. of course, because that would be like his ride. he'd be all familiar with it. >> he wouldn't have to pay. >> i would hope not. >> he can use his mind powers. see how he did that? that's how he would do all the rides. >> it is an interesting marriage of sorts between disney and star wars. >> can't imagine him in the teacups though. >> is that a teacup? it wasn't? >> no, i don't think so. but they should show him in that. it's cute. >> it's great. >> yeah. looking forward to the next installment. >> i'm sure. >> it's still just strange to me. >> mickey mouse, i am your father. >> i want to see mickey mouse and next star wars.
president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. >>> with more details about disney's big announcement this week that it has acquired the entire star wars fran chiez, well, to celebrate disney released a video. take a look at it. >> are you kidding me? >> the video shows what darth vader might do on his first trip to disney world. of course his trip would include a ride on space mountain. of course, because that would be like his ride. he'd be all familiar...
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president obama and the dnc spent more than $930 million. governor romney and the rnc spent more than $1.02 billion. outside organizes spent around $528 million and what the parties and tax payers spent on the conventions, $142 million. those numbers don't exactly surprise campaign veterans on both sides. >> it is a little bit of an arms race. one side raises more, another side has to match. >> it takes a lot move money to put into the campaign and a lot of money to get on television. >> reporter: that is where most of money goes, to those political ads, especially in the battleground states. so pardon us just one more time. >> i'm normandy approved this message gentleman. >> i'm president barack obama and i approved this message. >> -- i'm mitt romney and i approved this message. >> 07 to 08% goes into paid communication. >> reporter: rosenberg points out that while this is a lot of money going out, it is also easier to get money coming in. more and more donors can get involved via textbook, facebook and other new media. in washington, moll
president obama and the dnc spent more than $930 million. governor romney and the rnc spent more than $1.02 billion. outside organizes spent around $528 million and what the parties and tax payers spent on the conventions, $142 million. those numbers don't exactly surprise campaign veterans on both sides. >> it is a little bit of an arms race. one side raises more, another side has to match. >> it takes a lot move money to put into the campaign and a lot of money to get on...
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obama and romney campaigns have been all over the state. six visits by the campaigns in just the last three days in the commonwealth. thirteen very important electoral votes up for grabs and new rules on voter identification could be the wild card. now, new this year, voters will have to bring a valid i. d. . the state board of elections mailed out voter i. d. cards. you can use a driver's license, a student i. d. card, a utility bill or even a gun registration card. there is a complete list of i. d. that will be accepted. in the past, voters could sign an affidavit saying they are who they are. if they do not have i valid i. d. this year, they to vote a provisional ballot and they have to bring the i. d. to the state board of elections by friday in they want the vote to be counted. virginia voters are asked to plan ahead. >> people need to be prepared a lot of people tend to vote before work or after work and that means it will be very busy at the beginning and end of the day. everybody should be patient. if it is very, very cold, you have
obama and romney campaigns have been all over the state. six visits by the campaigns in just the last three days in the commonwealth. thirteen very important electoral votes up for grabs and new rules on voter identification could be the wild card. now, new this year, voters will have to bring a valid i. d. . the state board of elections mailed out voter i. d. cards. you can use a driver's license, a student i. d. card, a utility bill or even a gun registration card. there is a complete list of...
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today, president obama holds rallies in wisconsin, ohio and iowa. he will wrap up with with the evening rally in des moines. mitt romney will begin his final day of campaigning in central florida. he will be in fairfax, virginia this afternoon for a rally at george mason university and he will fin you be up in new hampshire where he secured the republican nomination. >> busy last-minute traveling for those candidates. thank you. >>> nearly a week after sandy pummeled much of the northeast, residents in some of the hardest hit areas are batting cold weather and a new threat from mother nature. fox's rick leventhal is in hoboken, new jersey with more. >> reporter: with difficult recovery efforts continuing in much of the northeast, dropping temperatures now raising new concerns. six days after sandy, many resident still have no power. new york governor andrew cuomo says homes without heat are, quote, uninhabitable. >> we'll have tens of thousands of people who need housing solutions right away. >> reporter: right now, forecasters say a nor'easter coul
today, president obama holds rallies in wisconsin, ohio and iowa. he will wrap up with with the evening rally in des moines. mitt romney will begin his final day of campaigning in central florida. he will be in fairfax, virginia this afternoon for a rally at george mason university and he will fin you be up in new hampshire where he secured the republican nomination. >> busy last-minute traveling for those candidates. thank you. >>> nearly a week after sandy pummeled much of the...
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president obama took on some of those controversies in a wide- ranging press conference yesterday. republicans have been furious about what they see as a changing time line from the white house. ambassador chris stevens and three other americans were coiled trying to defend the post in that ambush. they say u.s. ambassador susan rice gave inaccurate information during her appearances on five sunday talk shows the week after the attack blaming the tax on a video that insulted the prophet mohammed. critics say it was deliberately misleading and they vow to block her nomination should she be nominated as u.s. secretary of state. rice was defended by the president yesterday. >> but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi and was simply mechanicking a presentation based on intelligence that she had received is outrageous. >> a lot of people think if she didn't have anything to do with the attack on white house then why did the white house hang her out to dry and put her on five sunday talk shows without adequate information. we now now that at least
president obama took on some of those controversies in a wide- ranging press conference yesterday. republicans have been furious about what they see as a changing time line from the white house. ambassador chris stevens and three other americans were coiled trying to defend the post in that ambush. they say u.s. ambassador susan rice gave inaccurate information during her appearances on five sunday talk shows the week after the attack blaming the tax on a video that insulted the prophet...
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president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. south we are following a developing situation right now. crews are still on the scene of this large fire in northeast. they were called to moore street near union market late last night. melanie alnwick is there with the latest on the situation there. >> reporter: one thing we want to be very clear about. this fire is near union market but not at union market. there has been some confusion on social media about that this morning. we want to be very clear. we are dealing with the 400 block of moore street. so all of the warehouses in this small block are affected either by smoke and fire or by the fact that the power has been cut off here until they can secure the scene and get through the warehouses and make sure they can sound the all clear. when firefighters arrived, the fire was on the first floor. about 120 firefighters. 50 of them went inside and then things got a little risky. the fire started to cook up really quickly, a lot of smoke. suddenly, they had to take all 50 of the fi
president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. south we are following a developing situation right now. crews are still on the scene of this large fire in northeast. they were called to moore street near union market late last night. melanie alnwick is there with the latest on the situation there. >> reporter: one thing we want to be very clear about. this fire is near union market but not at union market. there has been some confusion on social media about that this...
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. >>> in the scandal surrounding former cia chief david petraeus, president obama is backing the top commander in afghanistan. general john allen is denying he had any kind of sexual relationship with jill kelley. she is the tampa socialite who triggered the investigation by reporting threatening edmonton mails from paula broadwell. broadwell appear driver's license was found in rock creek park by a jogger. park police alerted the fbi and will hold it for 90 days unless broadwell claims it. aims it. >> i would say two things. one, it is up to congress to make decisions about who is called to testify but the president is confident that acting director morel is fully formed and capable of representing the cia in a hearing about the incidents in benghazi. >> the senate intelligence commit i don't will hold a closed door hearing today looking into the petraeus scandal and the libya consulate attack. >>> a chaotic scene on a mass transit bus not far from our area, coming up next. >> this fight wasn't between two passengers. it was passenger versus bus driver. details of what set this off
. >>> in the scandal surrounding former cia chief david petraeus, president obama is backing the top commander in afghanistan. general john allen is denying he had any kind of sexual relationship with jill kelley. she is the tampa socialite who triggered the investigation by reporting threatening edmonton mails from paula broadwell. broadwell appear driver's license was found in rock creek park by a jogger. park police alerted the fbi and will hold it for 90 days unless broadwell...
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republicans are blasting the obama administration for sending mixed signals on the cause of the tax. >> what is clear is that this administration including the president himself has intentionally misinformed, read that lied, to the american people in the aftermath of this tragedy. >> the former cia chief testifies at two hearings behind closed doors today. >>> a developing war in the holy lapped. israel is moving troops to the border with gaza after the government approved the call-up of 30,000 reservists. hamas has fired 500 rockets into israel killing three since wednesday and more air raids are going off as another 85 were fired this morning. israel responded with 150 air strikes since yesterday killing 15. it follows air raids in the capital for the first time in 20 years. a long-range rocket from iran landed just off the coast from tel aviv yesterday. >>> a horrific scene in west texas after i afreight train slammed into a flatbed truck full of -- after a freight train slammed into a flatbed truck full of wounded warriors. investigators from the national transportation safety bo
republicans are blasting the obama administration for sending mixed signals on the cause of the tax. >> what is clear is that this administration including the president himself has intentionally misinformed, read that lied, to the american people in the aftermath of this tragedy. >> the former cia chief testifies at two hearings behind closed doors today. >>> a developing war in the holy lapped. israel is moving troops to the border with gaza after the government approved...
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up next, his conversation with invisible president obama. hi. we're spreading the word about honey bunches of oats fruit blends and their unique taste combinations. like peach/raspberry. with one flavor in the granola bunch and one on the flake. two flavors. in harmony. honey bunches of oats. make your day bunches better. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton honors ambassador chris stevens who was asass night in -- assassinated in libya. >> chris stevens was an inspiration to all who knew him during his life. he remains an inspiration now and i believe far into the future. >> lawmaker are stepping up demand for information about the attack on benghazi consulate. several congressional committees are holding classified hearings on the matter next week. >>> opponents of same-sex marriage have conceded their race in washington state. that means washington joins maine and maryland as the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. six other states and d.c. already allow gay marriage but their laws were enacted either by lawmakers or cou
up next, his conversation with invisible president obama. hi. we're spreading the word about honey bunches of oats fruit blends and their unique taste combinations. like peach/raspberry. with one flavor in the granola bunch and one on the flake. two flavors. in harmony. honey bunches of oats. make your day bunches better. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton honors ambassador chris stevens who was asass night in -- assassinated in libya. >> chris stevens was an inspiration to...